High Altitude Weather Station Data at USGS Benchmark Glaciers

• Main Authors: Baker, Emily H, Peitzsch, Erich H, Sass, Louis, Miller, Z.S., Whorton, Erin N
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: U.S. Geological Survey 2019
• Subjects: glaciation, glaciology, Cryosphere, Glaciers, Blacier Mass Balance/Ice Sheet Mass Balance; Cascade Glacier; Juneau Icefield; Lemon Creek; Pelto; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5066/p9euxipe; https://alaska.usgs.gov/products/data.php?dataid=233

Since the late 1950s, the USGS has maintained a long-term glacier mass-balance program at three North American glaciers. Measurements began on South Cascade Glacier, WA in 1958, expanding to Gulkana and Wolverine glaciers, AK in 1966, and later Sperry Glacier, MT in 2005. Additional measurements hav...